Pathé Communications. Assonitis then green-lit several projects; Lambada, Midnight Ride, No Place to Hide, Fifty/Fifty, Out of Control (which he also directed, his final directing credit to date) as well as the sequels American Ninja 4: The Annihilation and Little Ninja Man, later retitled American Ninja 5. He also developed a project Wings with announced with Michael Dudikoff, but the film was never made. Due to financial issues at the company, Assonitis' contract was terminated in 1990, before many of his projects had been released. Assonitis sued Pathé Communications for wrongful termination of his contract. He won his suit in 1998 and was awarded $2.9 million in compensation. Return to independent producing After his termination from Cannon Pictures Inc., Assonitis took the rights to Scent of a Woman to Universal Pictures. Universal acquired the rights and remade the film as Scent of a Woman starring Al Pacino and directed by Martin Brest. Released worldwide in 1993, the film earned 63,095,253 in the US and $71 million internationally, totaling $134,095,253 worldwide. The film was nominated for four Academy Award including Best Picture with Pacino winning for Best Actor. In the mid 90s, Assonitis worked as a consultant to Ibrahim Moussa's Stone Canyon Investments. In 1998, Paul Guez bought into the company and soon after a deal was announced with MGM Animation to produce three films, beginning with Tom Sawyer and Night at the Opera, however only Tom Sawyer was produced before MGM Animation folded. The company entered into a first look deal with director Reginald Hudlin and his company Hudlin Bros. However no films were produced from this deal and Stone Canyon Investments closed soon after. After producing Sabrina Goes to Rome for Paramount Domestic Television and ABC in 1998, Assonitis produced the 2003 Italian slasher film Red Riding Hood directed by Giacomo Cimini. Since 2003, Assonitis has concentrated on commercial and film distribution projects in South East Asia and Malaysia. In 2021, Assonitis was awarded the German Independence Honorary Award from Oldenburg International Film Festival. The festival opened with a theatrical screening of Tentacles and also conducted a retrospective of his films including Who Saw Her Die?, Beyond the Door, The Visitor, Madhouse and Piranha II: The Spawning. He later announced a sequel to Beyond the Door entitled Embryo would be released in 2023 and Juliet Mills would return to star. Filmography References External links Tentacles, Demons, and a Psycho